Re: Font stretching?

Ole Streicher wrote:

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art (AT) central (DOT) net> writes:
No not automatically. What you could do is make their font size X *
the rows that they span, but it will make them bigger not stretched.

This is what I do not know at the place. Is there really no way to
override the "100 % means normal size" behaviour of sizing fonts to
"100 % means full cell height"?

Not that I know of. Not sure which 100% you mean?

"font-size: 100%" means just that 100% of the font size not a ratio with
respect to width. "line-height: 1.5" is a ratio of the line to line
spacing in terms of the font height. Again does not distort the glyph

Other option use images and stretch the height attribute. Then again
this seems to be the case for MathML. Good luck with IE. Explains what
so many site with formulas presented as images!

Yes. The problem is not only IE, but also Firefox: my one (2.0.xx)
cannot print Mathml formulas, and it is much more difficult to
fine-tune the output (I would not do this if mathml presentation in
firefox would be perfect, but it is not).

I have no problem SeaMonkey SeaMonkey 1.1.9 is is essentially Firefox 2.x

http://xml-maiden.com/userjs/mathml/.../xml/ham.xhtml

Prints formulas just fine. Maybe you need the fonts...

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/
Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla

On the other hand, the infrastructure to build formulas with images is
much more complicated since I usually need LaTeX & Co. Especially if I
need to present on-the-fly generated formulas this would be a
nightmare. And, one cannot cut-and-paste from the image. etc.pp.

Not sure what the "pp." is, but if you do you formulas in a word
processor like Word

http://math-editor.sourceforge.net/
Mathematics and Drawing Toolbars for Microsoft Word: Home

You can take a screenshot, crop, and save as image for your
pages...seems to be what most sites do.

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Jonathan
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